Do the pharmacies at different Walgreens locations charge different prices for the same drugs?
March 15, 2007, 6:54 am If Crack Dealers Took Lessons From Walgreens, They Really Would Be Rich By Stephen J. Dubner Several weeks ago, I was talking to a physician in Houston, the sort of older gentleman family doctor you don’t see much of anymore. His name is Cyril Wolf. He’s originally from South Africa, but other than that, he struck me as the quintessential American general practitioner of decades past. I’d asked him a variety of questions — what’s changed in recent years in his practice, how managed care has affected him, etc. — when suddenly his eyes fired up, his jaw set tight, and his voice took on a tone of great exasperation. He began to describe a simple but huge problem in his practice: a lot of generic medications are still too expensive for his patients to afford. Many of his patients, he explained, must pay for their drugs out-of-pocket, and yet even the generic drugs at pharmacy chains like Walgreens, Eckerd, and CVS could cost them dearly. So Wolf began snooping aroun
PHOENIX — Prescription drug prices can break your budget. If you’re a good shopper, you likely check out different chain stores to get the best prices. But the ABC15 Investigators found that even within the same chains, different stores had sometimes very different prices. We checked 100 pharmacies across the Valley, from Sun City to Apache Junction. From the last week of June through the third week of July, we asked for the cash-price of a 30-day supply of six top-selling drugs: Lipitor, Singulair, Lexapro, Nexium, Synthroid and Plavix. Sources: http://www.abc15.com/content/news/investigators/consumeralerts/story/Pharmacy-prices-Same-chain-different-store/TPZ3AVOjF0mpPVk_BPPAag.
